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JACOB SULLUM: Happy Guantanamo Closing Day! In case you missed the nonevent, the military prison?

By Glenn Reynolds

JACOB SULLUM: Happy Guantanamo Closing Day!

In case you missed the nonevent, the military prison for suspected terrorists and other assorted “enemy combatants” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, did not close today. It may be years before it does, assuming President Obama ultimately delivers on that promise. In any case, the policy of keeping people locked up indefinitely without trial will continue, supplemented by a policy of keeping them locked up even if they are tried and acquitted. The New York Times reports that “the Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees…because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release.” The task force said about 40 other detainees “should be prosecuted for terrorism or related war crimes,” but that does not mean they will be released if they are found not guilty.

Change! Kinda makes a mockery of all that fierce moral urgency stuff, though, doesn’t it? Rubes.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).